shop.opencyclemap.org is now closed

After over 5 years of operation and thousands of orders processed, the OpenCycleMap online shop (shop.opencyclemap.org) was closed on the 4th January 2016.

Why?

There’s actually a long list of reasons why I decided to close the store, here’s just a few of them:

By the end of 2015 the sales were entirely of digital downloads for Garmin devices, but I don’t use my Garmin any more. This meant that I wasn’t spending as much time as I should have working on the maps.

I wasn’t developing new features for the maps or fixing some of the long-standing issues, and that was leading to disappointed customers.

While the maps were state-of-the-art a few years ago, they didn’t take advantage of the better displays on new Garmin devices.

There are many other places to get OSM-based cycling-themed Garmin maps nowadays, not least from Garmin themselves in some countries. Things have changed a lot in the last 5 years!

I’m busier than ever before with developing the main maps for OpenCycleMap (with vector tiles, server upgrades and all sorts of things) and that shows no signs of slowing down.

Shutting the shop leaves me more time to add new features to the map and to the website.